Seattle receives poor environmental quality marks
SEATTLE (AP) — An environmental
research institute has given Seattle, long
considered one of America's most livable
cities, poor marks for environmental qual
ity.
The World Resources Institute of Wash
ington. D.C.. ranks Seattle 65th out of 75
metropolitan areas studied
San Antonio was rated first, edging out
West Palm Beach, Fla., and Austin, Texas.
Portland was the highest-rated city on the
West Coast, finishing 15th.
St. Louis came in last.
"This is not good," said David Oilman,
Northwest director of Friends of the Earth
"There goes <hot notion that wo re that
shining < ily on the hill It all shows that
wo can't rust on our laurels.”
A city official who headed a J9ti2 study
of environmental problems questioned
.Seattle's ranking.
"It's right to say we haven't won every
environmental challenge that faces us. and
we have more to go. But comparing the
major urban renters of the United Slates,
to say that Seattle is 65th. leads me to won
der what's really in those measures." said
Torn Tierney, director of intergovern
mental relations for the city.
There was some good news for Seattle:
It was first for recycling, tied with Oak
land, fourth in terms of bike paths — it has
133 miles of them — and eighth in mass
transit
It was dragged down because of the
number of Superfund hazardous-waste
sites, ranking 69th; acreage used for city
parks, ranking 35th; and the amount of sol
id waste generated, ranking 70th.
Seattle had only a handful of days when
the air was considered "unhealthy." com
pared with 159 in Los Angeles.
Still. th*f Seattle area had 229 days of
'‘moderate" air. according to Environ
mental Protection Agency figures. That
means air quality, while not exceeding fed
eral pollution standards, was still not good.
Honolulu was first in air quality.
Seattle finished B5th in terms of drink
ing water quality. 20th in toxic releases.
90th in energy use and 59th in motor vehi
cle use.
In its third annual Green Metro Index,
the World Resource* Institute used feder
al statistics to determine the rankings. It
also used information gathered from cities
on specific topics relating to quality of life.
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Book stems from welcome arcnes
TACOMA (AP) — An arch of 2,500 elk antlers,
strung over Washington Street, reminds visitors
they are in Afton. Wyo.
Two mock lighthouses, linked by a 200-pound
model of the car ferry Ann Arbor No 7, span Sev
enth and Main in Frankfort. Mich., to tell folks
"Frankfort Welcomes Your Return."
If not for welcome arches, visitors to Castroville,
Calif , might not know that it is the artichoke cen
ter of the world, that Grants Pass. Ore , is the lit
tle town on the Rogue River with the big arches;
that Golden. Colo., is where the West lives, that
Corad. Neh . owes its existence to being smack on
the 100th Meridian
Welcome arches, gnu eful symbols of civic pride,
are ran* today Onlv about 50 welcome arches sur
vive m America More than 100 welcome arches,
many knocked down to make way for wider
streets, for safety, for progress, hove been cata
logued and chronicled by Bernard C Winn of
Enumdaw in a Iwxik. Arch Hivals 90 Years of Wel
come Archrs in Small Town America.
Winn, ?:t. is a retired U S Department of Agri
culture inspector and almond fanner from Merced,
Calif He moved to Enumdaw three years ago to
escape California's heat, be near his son's family
and write about welcome arches
Of the book's 100-plus welcome arches, Winn
said, he has visited 15 or 20 Winn made queries to
writer's digests, inquiries to chambers of com
merce and ( alls to libraries and historical societies,
with one qualification — the welcome arch had
to cross a public street. This eliminated arches
welcoming people to parks and forts, cemeteries
and race tracks.
i am interested in seeing
things saved that are
disappearing. People are
inclined to forget things if
somebody doesn’t put them
down in a book.’
Bernard C. Winn,
author
Awniting the president were four arches span
ning Pacific Avenue, arches built to commemorate
the new state's ample natural resources.
At 11th Avenue was an arch of iron, built from
three carloads of hematite iron mined at Cle Klum
and F.llensburg. A buoyant banner boasted. "Unde
veloped Mountains of It!"
At 12th Avenue was an arch of wheat. Mighty
timbers hold 1.060 sacks of flour and 640 sacks of
grain. At 13th Avenue was an arch of Roslyn coal.
And at 15th Avenue was the mightiest arch of
all. It was a timber arch built of heroic beams six
feet in diameter, cut at the St. Paul & Tacoma mill
down on Tacoma's boggy Tideflats.
A carriage driven by J.H. Barton, stables foreman
at Tacoma Passenger & Baggage Transfer, carried
the president over the soggy streets.
"What is this, Mr. Mayor?" the president asked
Mayor George B Kandle. as he rode in the honored
rig with Gov. Elisha P. Ferry and Judge William H.
Calkins.
Winn’s favorin' is in Ronald Reagan’s boyhood
hometown, the Illinois popcorn metropolis of
Dixon Dixon's nn;h over Galena Avenue was built
in 1919 to welcome soldiers returning from World
War 1 Dixon's arc h has been updated and main
tained. making the town's dedication to veterans a
constant symbol, not a singular event like Veterans
Day
"I admire the people of Dixon the most for what
they've accomplished with their arch," Winn said.
"I am interested in seeing things saved that are dis
appearing People are inclined to forget things if
somebody doesn't put them down in a book.”
Tacoma once boasted four welcome arc hes. All
were quickly built — and instantly razed — in
1891 to welcome a bearded. 5-foot-fi Indianapolis
lawyer, commander of the 70th Regiment of Indi
ana Volunteers and Presbyterian elder. His name
was Benjamin Harrison and he was not only the
23rd president but the first to visit Washington
upon statehood.
Harrison’s visit on a windy, rainy May day in
1891 was so breathlessly anticipated that the Taco
ma Daily News ran an ardent banner headline on
the day of Little Ben's arrival. It simply said. "He
Draweth Nigh.”
"Timber!" the mayor replied in the ancient log
ging holler.
"Admirable! Admirable!" the president said.
An equally enthusiastic ceremony was held in
1925 ot Wilkeson. That Pierce County coal and
sandstone town commemorated its ascension to
the self-proclaimed title of "The Way to Wonder
land” by building, for $2,<X)(). an arch of sandstone
from its nearhv quarry. Wilkeson frolicked for
three days with movies, ball games, dances, a
queen contest, a parade and a carnival.
Wilkeson's welcome arch survives, regal in a
dark gulch, eight miles from Winn's house in
Knumclaw. Scrunched between Gale Creek and
Chuck's Gas & Diesel Sendee on Highway 1H5. the
arch reminds visitors that this span honors Wilke
son sandstone and Wilkeson coal at a gateway to
the Carbon Glacier.
Visitors returning from the old mining town of
Carbonado, from the lost town of Fairfax, from the
plush woods of Mount Rainier National Park drive
under the arch on their way to Tacoma and
beyond. The arch holds a sign reading: "REMEM
BER WILKESON." And you do.
I Man uses phone for piano lessons
I CENTRAL POINT (AP) —
g| Duane Shinn has taught 12,000
P piano students, but he was not
| | actually there when they were
f1 learning to play.
He offers brief instruction
through his "Dial-A-Piano-I.es
son." This week's three minute
lesson was on playing crush
notes, a technique that gives the
piano a twangy sound reminis
cent of a guitar.
“You've heard of Diul-A
Prayer," said the balding, rolv
polyish Shinn, sitting at one of
six pianos.
"This is kind of like that
except, for the price of a phone
call, you can see if you lixu my
piano style The lesson is just an
introduction."
At the end of the free lesson,
he offers callers the opportunity
to order a catalog detailing his
instructional tapes
Shinn. 55. operates his busi
ness out of a cozy ranch-style
house just north of Medford.
The taped lessons vary, but
one called "Pros in Progress" is
a big seller. Students listen to
tht< lesson and then they tape
their own playing and mail it
back to him for critiquing
"I'm like a pen pal," Shinn
said
Except this pen pal charges
$50 a month
“A housewife in Omaha
might think it's u little bit
spendy.” Shinn said. “But a guy
in New York might want to
know how I do it so cheap."
Shinn's free lesson of the
week is available at 503-664
6751.
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